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Via unique essays from a distinctive workforce of overseas students and Hardy experts, A better half to Thomas Hardy offers a distinct, one-volume source, which encompasses all features of Hardy's significant novels, brief tales, and poetry

Informed through the newest in scholarly, severe, and theoretical debates from many of the world's best Hardy scholars

Fictions of British Decadence is a clean account of the emergence, improvement, and legacy of fiction written within the period of Oscar Wilde. It examines a vast variety of texts by way of a various array of Decadent writers, from frequent figures corresponding to Ernest Dowson and John Davidson to lesser-known innovators reminiscent of Arthur Machen and M.

Glyn Jones was once one of many outstanding first iteration of Welsh writers in English which integrated Dylan Thomas, Rhys Davies and Idris Davies. a tremendous determine at the Welsh literary scene for nearly sixty years, Glyn Jones’s brief tales are between his most interesting achievements; of his first assortment, The Blue mattress (1937), Edward Garnett wrote, ‘Glyn Jones is a genius .

Human sexuality, no less than the “rush of juices” or the “hiss of fertilization” at the dairy, is the means whereby the Will can continue to realize itself (TD 151); romantic love is merely the “stratagem” used by Nature, a “voluptuous delusion” which lures the individual on to procreation (Schopenhauer [1819] 1969 II: 535, 540). Hardly less cynically, this is close to the narrator’s “scientific” account in The Well-Beloved of Jocelyn Pierston’s conversation with the second Avice Caro about his laundry: “Nature was working her plans for the next generation under the cloak of a dialogue on linen” (WB 90).

This is to offer an account in metaphysical terms of the “shifted centre of altruism” Hardy had derived from his understanding of evolution, in which we are asked to recognize that the same will-to-live we find within ourselves “constitutes the inner nature of everything, and lives in all . . [extending] even to the animals and to the whole of nature” (Schopenhauer [1819] 1969 I: 372). ” Severe moralist though he is, Schopenhauer writes at times as though he would have agreed with Hardy’s Elizabeth-Jane, that in a “brief transit through a sorry world .